Chapter 24

And maybe... he had let himself believe that, too.

She gave him everything. Her warmth. Her body. Her trust. Without a single condition. But when morning came and he opened his eyes—she was gone. No trace of her beside him. No goodbye. Just a silence that felt louder than anything he’d heard.

He didn’t say it aloud, but that emptiness had been jarring.

Had he really been so lost in her?

“Was she r